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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Steward City (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Steward City. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Steward City is located in Dixie County.

To see how the shape of Florida's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dixie County: Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy & Taylor.

Below are the counties that are near Steward City. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Steward City:

  • Dixie County     (The home county of Steward City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Steward City, with the one closest to Steward City listed first.
    • Cross City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Horseshoe Beach
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Old Town
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Suwanee Old Town ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Suwanee Old Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwanee Old Town
      • Suwanee Old Town is located in Dixie County
    • Suwannee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Gilchrist County
    • Fanning Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Lafayette County
    • Mayo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo
      • Mayo is located in Lafayette County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,289 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mayo <1>
  • Levy County
    • Manatee Road
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manatee Road have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manatee Road
      • Manatee Road is located in Levy County
  • Suwannee County
    • Suwannee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwannee
      • Suwannee is located in Suwannee County
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Steward City, with the one closest to Steward City listed first.
    • Steinhatchee
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Salem
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Steward City, see our County-by-County Page for Steward City.

Newspapers Published in Steward City ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Steward City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Steward City, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Steward City.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Steward City:

Cemeteries Near Steward City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Steward City.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Steward City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Steward City, with the one closest to Steward City listed first.

  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Olive Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Olive Cemetery
  • Steinhatchee Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Steinhatchee Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Steinhatchee Cemetery
  • Mingo Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mingo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mingo Cemetery
  • Butler Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Butler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Butler Cemetery
  • Sandhill Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sandhill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sandhill Cemetery
  • Salem Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salem Cemetery
  • Sealey Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sealey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sealey Cemetery
  • Long Pond Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Long Pond Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Long Pond Cemetery
  • Sandhill Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sandhill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sandhill Cemetery
  • Cooks Hammock Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cooks Hammock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cooks Hammock Cemetery
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Hope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Hope Cemetery
  • McCrabb Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McCrabb Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCrabb Cemetery
  • Continue List   (22 more) ...
    • Pleasant Grove Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Grove Cemetery
    • Shady Grove Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shady Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shady Grove Cemetery
    • Old Town Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<5>

While we didn't find Steward City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Steward City.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Steward City, with the one closest to Steward City listed first.

  • Salem
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Suwannee
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwannee
    • Suwannee is located in Suwannee County
  • Mayo
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo
    • Mayo is located in Lafayette County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,289 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mayo <1>

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Steward City. See our List of 1890's Communities around Steward City.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Steward City. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Dixie County: www.dixie-county.com/

The official website for State of Florida: www.myflorida.com/

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Steward City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Steward City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.6686, Longitude: -83.3882       In this case, the coordinates for Steward City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<5>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Steward City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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